Fentanyl is America’s Deadliest Drug

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Federal health officials say fentanyl has overtaken heroin as America’s deadliest drug. It’s a trend Dr. Andrew Zinkel at Regions Hospital in St Paul Minnesota is also seeing

The CDC says there were 18-thousand fentanyl overdose deaths in 2016, with the rate doubling every year from 2013 to 2016. The CDC says there are 173 overdose deaths a day in the U-S.

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